The Federal Communications Commission has appointed Farhan Khan, a technology leader and former Food and Drug Administration official, as chief information officer. As Khan steps into the FCC’s top IT role, federal
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is pursuing a multiyear research program that seeks to develop next-generation technologies for data storage using synthetic DNA. The Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program intends
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The U.S. Air Force is working on a draft strategy to guide the military branch’s investments in robotic process automation (RPA) and other areas and Lauren Knausenberger, the service’s chief information officer
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released an emergency directive asking federal civilian agencies to mitigate Apache Log4j vulnerabilities in their internet-facing networks. CISA said Friday multiple threat actors are exploiting
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The Defense Information Systems Agency will no longer exercise the third option period in the milCloud 2.0 contract and allow the contract to sunset on May 20, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.
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Lynne Parker, director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, said her office has launched a new portal meant to help AI researchers explore and find data, testbeds and federal grant programs
More The Senate on Wednesday approved a $778 billion defense policy bill for fiscal year 2022 in an 88-11 vote, The Wall Street Journal reported. The FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act includes
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a bipartisan bill that would improve and authorize the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for five years to help speed up
More Congress prevented a debt default by approving a measure that would increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion, CNBC reported Wednesday. The House voted 221-209 early Wednesday to pass the measure. The
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Alex Stamos, partner at the Krebs Stamos Group and a federal advisory committee member at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said he believes basic security functions should not be sold as
More The National Science Foundation has asked interested stakeholders to submit potential research topics that could help address existing and future societal and national challenges as part of the Convergence Accelerator program. The
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